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  • After the dramatic coronavirus outbreak at the end of 2019 in Wuhan, Hubei province, China, on 11 March 2020, a pandemic was declared by the WHO. Most countries worldwide imposed a quarantine or lockdown to their citizens, in an attempt to prevent uncontrolled infection from spreading. Historically, quarantine is the 40-day period of forced isolation to prevent the spread of an infectious disease. In this educational paper, a historical overview from the sacred temples of ancient Greece—the cradle of medicine—to modern hospitals, along with the conceive of healthcare systems, is provided. A few foods for thought as to the conflict between ethics in medicine and shortage of personnel and financial resources in the coronavirus disease 2019 era are offered as well.
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  • 10.1136/postgradmedj-2020-138370
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?:journal
  • Postgrad_Med_J
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  • no-cc
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  • document_parses/pdf_json/e303fcf548115ac03ab9054b238a05258f63a390.json
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  • document_parses/pmc_json/PMC7439156.xml.json
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  • 32907877.0
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  • Medline; PMC
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  • Learning from the past in the COVID-19 era: rediscovery of quarantine, previous pandemics, origin of hospitals and national healthcare systems, and ethics in medicine
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?:year
  • 2020-08-20

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